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doodlesdev • today at 5:00 PM • 5 replies • view on HN

   > Modern languages like Zig, Gleam, and Roc offer genuine productivity benefits and attract top talent. As a bonus, their ecosystems are young enough that security tooling has not caught up yet. Dependabot will add support eventually, but until then you get the best of both worlds: a modern stack and a quiet PR queue.
How the hell is that actually a good thing? You might as well just use another language and disable Dependabot security updates if that's what you're looking for. Dependabot security updates aren't a liability, they're an asset in a world where developers use hundreds of dependencies daily, where every few months one of them is going to have a XSS or RCE vulnerability that has to be patched ASAP.

   > And if you are really concerned about a dependency’s security, you can always rewrite it yourself in Rust over a weekend.
That's not how it works. Honestly, this blog post gets me really worried about this developer's projects and clients.

   > Remove lockfiles from version control
What the fuck.

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williamjackson • today at 5:12 PM

Thank you for expressing my thoughts as well. The article seems to be full of contradictory “advice”.

Use a dependency cooldown, okay … but don’t commit your lockfile so you are always running the latest transitive deps? That’s nuts.

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equinumerous • today at 5:18 PM

The "> Remove lockfiles from version control" got me as well.

> Reproducible builds sound nice in theory, but velocity matters more than determinism. Think of it as chaos engineering for your dependency tree.

Reproducible builds are nice in practice, too. :) In the Node.js ecosystem, if you have enough dependencies, even obeying semver your dependencies will break your code. Pinning to specific versions is critical.

lanyard-textile • today at 5:35 PM

I started to reevaluate the seriousness of this advice with the going to jail prompt. I probably should have caught on sooner :)

wirelesspotat • today at 5:19 PM

I'm pretty sure the article is joking

> If the vulnerability were critical, someone would have merged it by now.

> GitHub Copilot can automatically suggest fixes for security vulnerabilities. Instead of updating to a patched version, let AI generate a workaround in your own code.

yunwal • today at 6:44 PM

How did you reach "Set open-pull-requests-limit to zero" and not recognize this as satire?